Brits 'more sceptical' about climate change

More people in Britain are becoming doubtful over climate change, according to figures from a new poll.

A survey carried out by Populus on behalf of the BBC showed that a quarter of UK adults do not think that global warming exists.

This is a rise of ten per cent on the number who said this back in November 2009, when the opinion poll was last carried out.

In November, 83 per cent of people thought that climate change was real, but this number has now fallen to 75 per cent.

A total of 1,001 adults were questioned for the poll.

Speaking to the BBC, managing director of Populus Michael Simmonds said: "The British public are sceptical about man's contribution to climate change - and becoming more so. More people are now doubters than firm believers."

Several high-profile scandals over climate change report findings could have influenced the results. Recently, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from 2007, which claimed that ice glaciers in the Himalayas could be totally melted by 2035, was shown to be false.

Written by Helen Montag.

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